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What happened before - booting linux

I was a little clueless what command is required to boot linux on the T1000 via network. Fortunately Colm MacCárthaigh could help me. His blog is btw an excellent resource if you are interested in how T2000 performs with linux compared to solaris10.

Entering "boot net boot.img base-config/package-selection= base-config/install-language-support=false" at OpenBoot prompt does the trick.

After some waiting you can see linux kernel booting and ubuntu setup starts.

Now for the bad part:

[   11.632520] tg3.c:v3.47 (Dec 28, 2005)
[   11.798541] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(Sun 570X) rev 9001 PHY(5714)]
(PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:4f:21:d8:b4
[   12.303733] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0]
WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
[   12.748787] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76148000]
[   12.947836] eth1: Tigon3 [partno(Sun 570X) rev 9001 PHY(5714)]
(PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:4f:21:d8:b5
[   13.549771] eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0]
WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
[   13.996801] eth1: dma_rwctrl[76148000]
[   14.203520] eth2: Tigon3 [partno(Sun 570X) rev 2100 PHY(5704)]
(PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:4f:21:d8:b6
[   14.802860] eth2: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0]
WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
[   15.246159] eth2: dma_rwctrl[769f4000]
[   15.454006] eth3: Tigon3 [partno(Sun 570X) rev 2100 PHY(5704)]
(PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:4f:21:d8:b7
[   16.027869] eth3: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0]
WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
[   16.387325] eth3: dma_rwctrl[769f4000]

These kernel messages mean that the T1000 has a Broadcom Tigon 3 gigabit ethernet chipset, whereas the T2000 is equipped with Intel eepro.
The result is that until now networking does not work for linux on the T1000 :(.

I am in contact with Fabbione (the ubuntu maintainer) and David Miller (the kernel developer) in order to solve this. But because of the time difference between Europe and US progress is slow. We will see what this day brings.

posted by New Creation @ 8:14 AM